Let's get this straight. A toy carmaker that's never made a real car plans to mass-produce an electric — something no automaker's successfully done — branded as a Trabant, the world-wide symbol of ...

That horrid rumor we heard in August is hideously true -- there is a new Trabant on the way, it is an electric car and it could be on the road by 2012 if the company finds some investors willing to ...

A German consortium is developing a slick, updated version of the Trabant, communist East Germany's famously unreliable mass-produced car. The new model is electric with solar panels on the roof - in ...

Back in August 2009, German automaker Herpa took everyone by surprise when it announced that it would debut a new Trabant at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car that was in its concept stages of ...

Slow, clunky and smelly, the old east German Trabant is cleaning up its image and will be on show in Frankfurt in a new energy… Slow, clunky and smelly, the old east German Trabant is cleaning up its ...

The Trabant, the smoke-belching national car of Communist East Germany, is to be reborn as an electric car fit for the environmentally conscious 21st century motorist. The new model, the Trabant nT, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE Trabant - polluting, joke-inspiring and the enduring symbol of the imploding nation that made it - is being reborn as an electric ...

MUNICH -- The Trabant -- an icon of communist eastern Germany -- will make a comeback as an electric car concept at the Frankfurt auto show in September. German manufacturer Herpa Miniaturmodelle GmbH ...

Simply sign up to the European companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Trabant’s toxic two-stroke motor and putrid paintwork has long been object of derision and a symbol of ...